Free games like Please Be Happy
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Please Be Happy, ranked by player overlap and content similarity. No purchase or Steam login required to view the list. Every pick is a full free-to-play title — not a demo, trial, or time-limited giveaway. imho.run's catalogue refreshes daily, so newly free or newly popular titles surface here without manual editing.
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Ranked picks
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Our Life: Beginnings & Always
Free-to-play alternative to Please Be Happy — no purchase or trial window. Shares Casual with Please Be Happy.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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First Snow
Free-to-play alternative to Please Be Happy — no purchase or trial window. Shares Casual with Please Be Happy.
Having moved away from her friends and family to attend community college, Allison Merlo is a fresh student struggling with the day to day challenges of life.
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one night, hot springs
Free-to-play alternative to Please Be Happy — no purchase or trial window.
Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...
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missed messages.
Free-to-play alternative to Please Be Happy — no purchase or trial window. Shares Casual with Please Be Happy.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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A Date with Death
Free-to-play alternative to Please Be Happy — no purchase or trial window.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
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家有大貓 Nekojishi
Free-to-play alternative to Please Be Happy — no purchase or trial window.
Nekojishi is a visual novel about feline beast-men, Taiwanese folklore, and the pressures and consequences that come with navigating the world of gods and spirits.
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The Sad Story of Emmeline Burns
Free-to-play alternative to Please Be Happy — no purchase or trial window. Shares Casual with Please Be Happy.
A short lesbian / yuri visual novel set in England. Our heroine, Toma Andrews, meets a ghost girl wearing an old-fashioned nightgown in a graveyard who calls herself Emmeline. Just who is she, and how did she die?
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Everlasting Summer
Free-to-play alternative to Please Be Happy — no purchase or trial window. Shares Casual with Please Be Happy.
Visual novel loved by many – Everlasting Summer – now on Steam!